The South West of England Lerwick Club
The SWELC was attending Ashbourne on the 10/5/25 and at 10.30am the birds were liberated into a light east wind the top open twenty positions in the club are as follows claiming 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 7th places was Steve and Phil of the Walker Brothers flying 90 miles their winner a 1y blue pied cock being a Van Den Bulk crossed Herman Cuesters being a May pigeon lines crossed Van Den Bulk purchased off Excelsior pigeon sales and he was sent unpaired racing just to the loft the second a 2y chequer pied cock being a Herman Cuesters crossed Lambrechts sent sitting 9 day old nest eggs the next a 2y blue chequer pied cock being a syndicate lofts bird via friend mick Carrick and the final a 2y grizzle hen of Adam Wealthhalls Lambrechts with the parents being purchased off ex club member when packing up Ken Tovey all were raced fully on the natural system with velocities of 1565, 2x 1563 and 1554.810.
Walker Brothers
4th, 12th, 16th and 20th open was Chris & John Adams flying 105 miles with 4 x widowhood flown wall Lunt & Green based bred birds with velocities of 1556, 1550.017. 1546.366 and 1542.
5th, 6th and 8th open was Trevor Cooke flying 78 miles with 3 x yearlings of his home bred combined strain breeding flown on the roundabout system with velocities doing 2 x 1555 and 1554.302.
9th and 14th open was Ray Bevan flying 79 miles his first a 3y blue cock being of P & D stud of Kittle 30 lines and the next a 3y blue hen of Dave Peeters when crossed with a P & D stud vale Olympic Kittle lines both flown on the roundabout system doing 1551 and 1548.
Ray Bevan
10th was Orchard & Vincent flying 83 miles with a 2y blue cock being a staff Van Reet crossed Rudy Van Reeth sent sitting 14 day old nest eggs and is a previous winner for the partnership with a velocity of 1550.668.
11th was Stuart Luff flying 90 miles with a 1y blue cock being a gift bred bird by Steve Bennett of Bristol doing a velocity of 1550.149.
13th, and 15th open was Dave Smith flying 102 miles the first a 2y blue chequer hen being a Herman Cuesters the next a 1y blue Soojen hen both sent sitting 10 day old nest eggs with velocities of 1549 and 1546.995.
17th and 18th was Adrian Bishop flying 110 miles the first a 1y chequer cock that's a multiple prize winner this was bred by Sylwester Kaminski of Worksop that was purchased at the new north road amalgamation Futurity sale his next a 2y blue cock being a Brian Olver line bred bird with velocities of 1546.264 and 1546.059.
19th was Barry Shinner flying 109 miles with a 2y blue white flight hen being a Coremans based bird with a velocity of 1544 well that's the top twenty from Ashbourne.
The Rat Man.
